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Notes from Mishkenot Sha’ananim: Paul Auster and David Grossman

In his previous posts on the Writers’ Festival at Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Bob Goldfarb wrote about the panel “Ashes and Ink: Contemporary Holocaust Writing,” about Amos Oz and Simon Sebag Montefiore in conversation, and Zeruya Shalev and Siri Hustvedt.

Paul Auster, the prolific American novelist and screenwriter, and David Grossman, one of Israel’s premiere writers, have been close friends for more than a dozen years. Continue reading here.